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en-wikipedia-org-6982		Joseph Priestley - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	16156	1431	67	By the time he died in 1804, Priestley had been made a member of every major scientific society in the Western world and he had discovered numerous substances.[187] The 19th-century French naturalist George Cuvier, in his eulogy of Priestley, praised his discoveries while at the same time lamenting his refusal to abandon phlogiston theory, calling him "the father of modern chemistry [who] never acknowledged his daughter".[188] Priestley published more than 150 works on topics ranging from political philosophy to education to theology to natural philosophy.[189] He led and inspired British radicals during the 1790s, paved the way for utilitarianism,[190] and helped found Unitarianism.[191] A wide variety of philosophers, scientists, and poets became associationists as a result of his redaction of David Hartley's Observations on Man, including Erasmus Darwin, Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Stuart Mill, Alexander Bain, and Herbert Spencer.[192] Immanuel Kant praised Priestley in his Critique of Pure Reason (1781), writing that he "knew how to combine his paradoxical teaching with the interests of religion".[8] Indeed, it was Priestley's aim to "put the most 'advanced' Enlightenment ideas into the service of a rationalized though heterodox Christianity, under the guidance of the basic principles of scientific method".[190]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6982.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6982.txt